PRN: SAP® Strategic Partner Utopia, Inc. to Expand European Operations; Will Offer Region-wide Support and Services in Advanced Data Management, Including SAP HANA and Mobility on a Cloud Infrastructure

The office will be headed by current Regional Director Mark Whitehouse, who has almost 20 years of IT industry experience. Utopia, with global headquarters in the US, has offices in Canada, the Middle East, India, Australia, Asia Pacific and Europe.

"Our new regional headquarters demonstrate our commitment to support the growing data services needs of our European customers and partners with even faster deployment times," said Arvind J. Singh, President and CEO of Utopia, Inc.

"In addition, Utopia will now provide regional support for HANA, SAP's in-memory computing platform, and other data-intensive applications like Sybase and OpenText," said Mr. Singh. "Our Mobility offerings and Cloud-based infrastructure enable us to meet the needs of our most demanding clients."

"Utopia is known for its thought leadership, best practices and scalable methodologies which improve the results clients see from the management of their enterprise data assets," said Mr. Whitehouse. "Over the past two years, we've helped over 100 enterprise clients globally with their data management needs. Now, we will be able to accelerate our recruiting and training of in-region data experts to meet the exploding regional demand for our services."

Utopia's knowledge and expertise has made it one of SAPÂ®'s leading strategic partners for SAPÂ® BusinessObjects™ Data Services, SAPÂ® HANA, Mobility, BI and SybaseÂ®. Utopia, SAP's Services 2010 Partner of the year, is an SAP Consulting Gold Partner and an SAP Services Integration Partner.